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oviparous

[ US /oʊˈvɪpɝəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. egg-laying

How To Use oviparous In A Sentence

  • In some oviparous quadrupeds, namely in lizards, the tongue is bifid, as also it is in serpents, and its terminal divisions are of hair-like fineness, as has already been described. On the Parts of Animals
  • Several other features indicate that laticaudids are ‘primitive’ compared to the hydrophiids: they are generally better able to move on land, and they are mostly (but not entirely) oviparous (whereas hydrophiids are all viviparous). Archive 2006-07-01
  • Depending on environmental conditions, it can shift from viviparous to oviparous reproduction, with production of encysted and dehydrated embryos.
  • THE account which has now been given of the viscera, the stomach, and the other several parts holds equally good not only for the oviparous quadrupeds, but also for such apodous animals as the Serpents. On the Parts of Animals
  • Over 20 oviparous specifically expressed genes were identified through screening the subtracted cDNA library enriched between oviparous and ovoviviparous Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
  • Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • The first platypus specimen, only a skin, reached England in 1799 and it wasn’t until 1884 when it was definitely established that platypuses were oviparous, that is, they laid eggs like reptiles and birds, but unlike the majority of mammals. Archive 2006-06-01
  • Therefore they are so in dolphins and all the cetacea which have them, and in the oviparous quadrupeds among the scaly animals. On the Generation of Animals
  • They'd be oviparous, wouldn't they?" asked Bonnard. Cattle Town
  • All viviparous animals furnished with feet have hair; all oviparous animals furnished with feet have horn-like tessellates; fishes, and fishes only, have scales-that is, such oviparous fishes as have the crumbling egg or roe. The History of Animals
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